North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has reversed course and restored funding for the High Point Market Authority in his proposed state budget for the next two years. The governor had proposed cutting the state funds in half for the fiscal ...
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The High Point Market Authority would face a significant cut in state funding in the coming years under a budget proposal submitted by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory. McCrory, a Republican who was elected to the top job last November, ...
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Michael Bay WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Merinos Home Furnishings has closed on the former Hanesbrands textile mill property here, paying $3.2 million for what will become its fourth large showroom. The retailer, which opened in a ...
Americhem Inc., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio — a provider of custom color and additive solutions for man-made fibers — has announced plans to increase capacity at its Liberty, N.C., plant by adding a new production line that will ...
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ADVANCE, N.C. — An expansion of Ashley Furniture's new distribution center here will be delayed for another year due to the discovery of four acres of wetlands at the site, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Bill Coslo, an attorney ...
MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — North Carolina upholstery manufacturer Shenandoah Furniture has announced it will open a plant here, the Mount Airy News reported. Shenandoah's announcement came a little more than a month after Henredon Furniture ...
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PGT Industries has completed the sale of its Salisbury, N.C., manufacturing facility to an affiliate of Gildan Activewear Inc. for approximately $8 million in cash. PGT previously manufactured impact and non-impact doors and windows at the ...
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MOUNT AIRY, N.C. --- Henredon Furniture is closing an upholstered furniture plant here, according to a report in the Mount Airy News. More than 100 people will be laid off as a result of the closing, which will take place over several ...
Lenovo on Tuesday said it will open its first computer manufacturing plant in the U.S., where it will make laptops, PCs and tablets sold under its Think brand. Lenovo will open the factory early next year in Whitsett, North Carolina, ...
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Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors has temporarily stopped shipments of its i-MiEV electric vehicles(EV)to French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen. Mitsubishi's EVs are sold as iOn Peugeot and Citro?n C-Zero in European market and the ...
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THOMASVILLE, N.C. --- Specialized furniture carrier Sun Delivery has moved into its new corporate headquarters here. The 35,000-square-foot facility includes the company's new customer service call center, which operates seven days a ...
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Do you have a favorite garden tool? Something that you keep within arm’s reach every time you go into the garden? What do you use to make digging, pruning, growing or harvesting better for the back or more soothing for the soul? The ...
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Apple is running servers from IBM and Oracle with flavors of the Unix operating system at its Maiden, N.C. data center, according to a job entry posted on the company's website. Apple is looking for a Solaris systems engineer with five ...
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Rotational molding volume will track U. S. Gross domestic product, continuing a trend that began in the mid-1990s, economist Peter Mooney, said at a Society of Plastics Engineers conference. Mooney issued his sixth rotomolding report in ...
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The combined Canadian and U. S. Lumber industries shrunk by about 30 percent as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis that, in 2008, sparked the U. S. 's worst recession since the Great Depression, according to a summary in the 2012 ...
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